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The “Just Say No” Lady Just Said Yes
When it came to administering oral sex to advance her career it’s alleged
If you’re as old as I am, you certainly remember his wife’s campaign to “just say no” as one of the highlights of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Drug abuse was (and will always be) a problem back then and Nancy’s solution was (again) to just say no to drugs. Kind of simplistic if you ask me.
At the time, I would look at who I saw as a silly spinster and wonder “What did Reagan see in her? Was she ever sexy?” Nancy just seemed so curveless and sexually unappealing — her age notwithstanding.
Well! It turns out (at least according to several biographers — and where there’s smoke there’s fire if you ask me) that Nancy Davis (her maiden name), a not especially talented aspiring actress, was alleged to be pretty quick to “put out” if there was a movie role in the offing.
Back in those halcyon “#what” days, the granting of sexual favors was a common procedure if an actress wanted to be hired for a key part in a film. And Nancy was reputed to be quite the blow job queen. And not only because she gave them out liberally — but because she was so good at it.
Defenders of the one-time First Lady offer that her relationships were much more nuanced than that. Still, rumors…
